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    TREE SLOTH

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruitsplay

    Synonyms:

    sloth; tree sloth

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    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("tree sloth" is a kind of...):

    edentate (primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tree sloth"):

    ai; Bradypus tridactylus; three-toed sloth (a sloth that has three long claws on each forefoot and each hindfoot)

    Choloepus didactylus; two-toed sloth; unai; unau (relatively small fast-moving sloth with two long claws on each front foot)

    Choloepus hoffmanni; two-toed sloth; unai; unau (a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot)

    Holonyms ("tree sloth" is a member of...):

    Bradypodidae; family Bradypodidae (a family of edentates comprising the true sloths)

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